Airbus A321NeoLR

[cbrown1]

Look like this is the famed 757 replacement. It's another reason why the 321 needs be a group 3 aircraft.

http://leehamnews.com/2014/10/21/exclusive-airbus-launches-a321neolr-long-range-to-replace-757-200w/

Airbus has started marketing a long-range, higher gross weight version of the A321neo that it says will have 100nm more than the Boeing 757-200W used on long range, trans-Atlantic routes, Leeham News and Comment has confirmed.
We learned three weeks ago Airbus was working on what we will call the A321neoLR (Long Range); Airbus doesn?t yet have a name for it, but began showing the details to airlines a week ago. The airplane is a higher gross weight aircraft, at 97 tonnes, and will have three auxiliary fuel tanks. With most long-range 757 configurations around 169 seats (United Airlines), the A321neoLR will have 164 seats, a slight loss, with 20 lie-flat business seats and the remainder in coach configuration.
Our analysis, which will be detailed in a Subscription post this week, comes very close to the Airbus specification. Kiran Rao, EVP sales and marketing for Airbus, confirmed the new model today. He said the A321neoLR will have a range of 3,900nm, or about 100nm more than the operational range of the 757W. (Advertised range is 4,100nm.) The additional fuel tanks add 400-500nm to the A321neo?s range, he said.
Intended markets are North America-trans-Atlantic, North American to South America, Europe to Africa and SE Asia to Australia. There are about 100 757-200Ws in operation and some 700-800 757s remaining in service.
The A321neoLR will have about 27% lower trip costs and 24% lower per seat costs than the 757, Rao told us. Overall, the LR will be about 25% less costly to operate, he said.
Entry into service is slated for the second half of 2018, about two years after the standard A321neo. Due to technical differences, the standard A321neo won?t be retrofittable into an LR standard, he said.
Helping the A321neoLR is the 2% fuel burn improvement Airbus contracted with Pratt & Whitney for the Geared Turbo Fan engine, which becomes available then. The LR will also be available with the CFM LEAP-1A.
?Maintenance costs will be lower than the 757. There will be lower navigation fees and lower engine costs,? Rao said. ?[The A321neoLR] will be a very unique aircraft when compared with the [Boeing] 737-9, which has no development legs left in it.?

 

[The Drizzle]

Cool, I always wanted to cross the Atlantic in the high 20s.

 

[TMMT]

Cool, I always wanted to cross the Atlantic in the high 20s.

Well, traffic shouldn't be a factor. :0

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Cool, I always wanted to cross the Atlantic in the high 20s.

This should prove to be a thinking man's airplane, with ample time to ruminate about a go/no go decision during the takeoff roll as well.

 

[JetMonkey]

Looks like all there doing is beefing up the engines a bit and adding one more ACT.

 

[redflyer65]

Going to be interesting how the ranges play out between Airbus and Boeing.

Boeing just released a range on the 737-800 Max of NYC-London, and NYC-Lima, Peru.

Probably the same on the low altitudes though.

 

[FR8mastr]

That's impressive, 100nm more range than a 30 year old Boeing. Now they just need to work on its cruise altitude, and perhaps some sort of climb capability. Maybe in 20 years or so they will build a 321 able to fly into and operate out of a region with mountains.

All that said, Boeing has really blown it by not developing its own 75 replacement

 

[flythere]

That's impressive, 100nm more range than a 30 year old Boeing. Now they just need to work on its cruise altitude, and perhaps some sort of climb capability. Maybe in 20 years or so they will build a 321 able to fly into and operate out of a region with mountains.

All that said, Boeing has really blown it by not developing its own 75 replacement

They did, it's the 737-900

 

[CapnVegetto]

Welcome to the new age of airplanes. The 757 was built for performance; for a mission. The Airbus is built with one thing in mind: to be operated as cheaply as possible.

Cheap cheap cheap cheap. The new all encompassing economic strategy of everything.

 

[Dornier 335]

That's impressive, 100nm more range than a 30 year old Boeing. Now they just need to work on its cruise altitude, and perhaps some sort of climb capability. Maybe in 20 years or so they will build a 321 able to fly into and operate out of a region with mountains.

All that said, Boeing has really blown it by not developing its own 75 replacement

My guess is that Airbus is restricted to certain design changes to keep the common type.

I don't understand what makes the 737-900ER so different to the - 900 that pilots need special training. Are there any US operators that fly the - 900ER?